It turned out that Franz did not attach much importance to this matter, and as the king of a country, Franz was busy with some national affairs every day.

As for Rudolph Jr.'s education, Franz still trusts his mother more, after all, he came over like this back then.

In fact, this is an irresponsible attitude, some people may pursue just to make a living, maybe he himself is not aware of it, but it is really convenient.

……

Poor little Rudolph fell into the clutches of Ernst, and he did not yet know what kind of life he would face next.

"Goodbye sister, goodbye grandmother!" Rudolph Jr. said goodbye to his two sisters (his own sisters, Princess Gisela and Karina) and his grandmother.

"Ernst! Rudolph will be handed over to you for a while, and you must keep an eye on him and not waste your studies. Queen Sophie emphasized.

"Don't worry! Queen Mother, I took Rudolph in order to let him receive a more complete and advanced education, and he also came into contact with outstanding nobles and heroes from European countries. Ernst assured.

"Baby, take care of yourself!" Queen Sophie kissed Rudolph's forehead goodbye.

"Let's go!" Ernst said to the coachman, who swung his whip and whipped it on the horse's buttocks, and the convoy moved slowly.

As the carriage gradually disappeared from view, the Empress Dowager Sophie came back to her senses, and Rudolph didn't know if it was good or bad, anyway, it was only three months, and it was not a big problem.

……

"Rudolph, what do you think of the scene along the way?" Ernst asked Rudolf through the train's window, looking at the field that was rapidly moving backwards.

"Brother Ernst, it was okay yesterday, the scenery outside is indeed not visible in the palace, it is very novel, and I am too tired in the back, I feel that my bones are going to fall apart." Rudolph complained.

Rudolf did this because Ernst took him by train to North Germany.

The steam trains of this era were conceivably very uncomfortable, and Ernst deliberately ordered a hard-seat carriage.

There were only Ernst and Rudolph in the carriage, as well as Ernst's team of bodyguards and assistants.

In fact, as Ernst, it is completely possible to order a premium box, where the conditions are very good, but the premium box does not have the taste of the green car hard-seat car that Ernst had when he was a child in his previous life.

Ernst also wanted Rudolf to feel the hardships of ordinary people's travel, these steam trains and bumpy railways, plus hard leather seats, loud noises and more than a dozen hours of travel.

Don't say Rudolph, even Ernst feels very tired, but Ernst has a bittersweet taste of memory, so he enjoys it, and Rudolph is miserable, from childhood to adulthood, when did he suffer this kind of torture.

After more than ten hours of torture, the train finally reached its final destination, Berlin.

Rudolf, who was going abroad for the first time and seeing other capitals, felt very new to everything here, Prussia and Vienna were more rigid and orderly than the atmosphere, a feeling that the city itself exuded that could only be understood.

Ernst prepared a full education for Rudolph, and all the itinerary was full, of course, a little different from what had been promised to the Empress Dowager Sophie.

In addition to all the courses, Rudolf Jr. had to deal with the Prussian royal family, visit Prussia's industrial achievements, and for a month, he would be assigned to study at the Heshingen Military Academy.

Ernst focused on building a social education for Rudolf in addition to court education.

Just like in the previous life, many family education in China is actually missing, but school education makes up for the lack of family education.

Good homeschooling definitely has more advantages than social education such as school, but many homeschooling is a failure.

Judging from Rudolph's experience in his previous life, his family education was definitely a failure of failures, so Ernst wanted to imitate the exam-oriented education in his previous life to force Rudolph to instill a set of normal thinking.

Things gather by like, people by groups, let Rudolph get in touch with some excellent people, and it will definitely affect his future.

The benefits of exam-oriented education are very obvious, that is, the "volume", and the roll is so that Rudolph has no time to think and complain.

This is incomparable to court education, which only serves Rudolph alone, and all the court teachers revolve around Rudolph, and those court teachers only need to forcibly instill knowledge into Rudolph.

As for exam-oriented education, Rudolph has competitors, and Ernst is ready to let Rudolph taste the horror of exams and the horror of competing with geniuses of the same age.

As for exam-oriented education to erase nature and imagination, even if this is really the case, there is absolutely no harm to Rudolph, Franz wants to train Rudolph to be a king, but in his previous life, it seems that Franz still failed.

Under the pressure of exam-oriented education, Rudolph can really make some close friends, unlike those who take the initiative to tie up, Rudolph's classmates are difficult brothers and sisters.

……

February 10, 1868.

Today, the central government of East Africa issued a new document to the localities to dig wells throughout the colonies of East Africa.

From this document, it seems that East Africa is indeed backward, and digging wells, which should be a spontaneous act of the people in any country or region (except Africa).

And what the East African government deals with and does on a daily basis does not look at all like running a country, but like running a large village.

Of course, the East African colonies were rich in water resources, and villages and towns were also close to water sources.

Why did Ernst launch the "digging wells" campaign in East Africa?

This depends on the data report of the East African government, which currently provides that the main source of drinking water for East African migrants is rivers and lakes.

The rivers and lakes of East Africa are not as clean as they could be, and they are used for irrigation agriculture, but when the rainy season comes, or during the dry season, many rivers and waters turn into muddy water.

Some rivers are even more exaggerated, with some hippos congregating in the same section, and the excrement directly pollutes the entire water, and even the fish can be smoked to death (it is said to die from lack of oxygen).

Therefore, the water of rivers and lakes in East Africa is generally drunk after simple treatment, which is mandatory.

Generally, two sedimentation tanks are dug to simply filter the river water, and if it is too turbid, some alum may be added, and finally boiled for drinking.

As a result, the drinking water in the East African colonies was directly linked to the quality of the local surface water, and even with simple filtration, many people fell ill and even died because of drinking water problems.

However, in this era, this is the case in most areas, so everyone is more accustomed to it, and it is also common for some people to drink raw water directly from rivers and lakes in order to save trouble.

So every measure in East Africa was enforced, and if it was found to be in violation of the rules of the colonial government, it was punished.

All in all, there is a current lack of clean and reliable drinking water in East Africa, and Ernst does not insist on a ratio of tap water to the tap water of the previous life, at least to meet the standard of well water.

Well water, which may be exposed to excessive levels of bacteria, dust and minerals, is much safer than surface water from rivers and lakes, especially compared to many of East Africa's often yellowing water sources.

Dodoma, Fata Village.

"The mud here is relatively wet, and you can see that this area has the heaviest moisture around." Jorah Mormont said to the people of the village.

As he spoke, he dug out a piece of dirt directly from the ground in front of him with his hands, and at the same time dug out a piece of dirt around him.

"You see, this piece of mud, as soon as I pinch it, it takes shape; Looking at this piece, as soon as I pinched it, he fell apart! So it's very likely that there is a water source underneath this field. Jorah Mormont proved her suspicions.

Chora Mormon was an Austro-Hungarian immigrant, Serb, who had previously lived in Hungary and had experience in drilling wells, but only experience.

"Then let's dig here first!" The German village chief made a decision.

So a group of more than a dozen villagers began to dig here with tools, and there were no advanced tools, just shovels and hoes.

The people of the village were responsible for preparing masonry materials and rattan for the walls of the well.

Chora Mormont was in charge of the main work, and after digging about fifty centimeters, she began to build the walls of the well with rattan and masonry, which were mainly used for fixation.

After each lap, Jorah Mormont and her assistants dug along the bottom of the masonry with a shovel, and the villagers pulled the earth up from the ground with wooden barrels tied to ropes.

It was getting late, and after tossing for most of the day, the well gradually took shape, and it was dug for almost ten meters, but there was still no water in sight.

"How deep is it now?" The village chief asked.

The rope that someone brought to measure was lowered along the mouth of the well, and the person at the bottom of the well pulled it.

"Village chief, there are still about four meters to reach twenty meters!"

"Good! Let's work overtime today to see if he can't get out of the water, if he doesn't have it after twenty meters, we'll come back in another place tomorrow. The village chief set the tone.

At this time, Chora Mormont spoke: "Village chief, don't worry, dig a few more meters to definitely get out of the water, the more the mud goes down, the wetter it becomes, originally according to my previous experience in Hungary, about ten meters should be out of the water, it seems that this African land is still a little different from Europe." ”

After hearing this, the group sped up their excavation, and sure enough, within a meter, as soon as Jorah Mormont went down with a spade, the well water gushed up from the ground.

"Out of the water, out of the water!" Jorah Mormont exclaimed excitedly.

"Okay, pull him up first." The village chief said.

The villagers used a simple escalator to put it into the well, and Jola Mormont slowly climbed up.

In this way, the first well in the village of Fata was born.

In East Africa, wells are mainly used for drinking water, and one or two wells dug in each village are enough for the entire village.

As for agricultural irrigation, it is natural to use surface water from rivers and lakes, including drinking water for livestock.

The development and utilization of wells has further improved the water security of residents in the East African colonies and further reduced the living space for various diseases.

Before the construction of waterworks began in East Africa, wells had been the main task of drinking water for residents, and some of these wells had been in service for decades before they were slowly replaced by tap water, and in some places where water was extremely scarce, wells will always play an irreplaceable role.

(End of chapter)